Social and Personal Ethics
ISBN: 9780538452564 | 0538452560
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Pub. Date: 2/5/2010
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Looking for a book that combines ethical theory with today's most relevant and compelling issues? SOCIAL AND PERSONAL ETHICS provides you with a sound introduction to ethical theory and issues through engaging readings on today's most hotly debated topics including war, marriage and sexual morality, business ethics, and a new section on voting and democracy.
| Preface | |
| Ehtical Theory | |
| An Introduction to Ethics | |
| The Nature of Morality | |
| Normative Theories of Ethics | |
| Ethical Relativism | |
| The Challenge of Cultural Relativism | |
| Four Rival Ethical Perspectives | |
| Happiness, Function, and Virtue | |
| Good Will, Duty, and the Categorical Imperative | |
| Utilit... MORE | |
| What Makes Right Acts Right? | |
| Issues in Applied Ethics | |
| Suicide and Euthanasia | |
| The Morality and Rationality of Suicide | |
| Voluntary Active Euthanasia | |
| When Self-Determination Runs Amok | |
| Is There a Duty to Die? | |
| Abortion | |
| An Almost Absolute Value in History | |
| The Moral Status of Abortion | |
| An Argument That Abortion Is Wrong | |
| A Defense of Abortion | |
| Virtue Theory and Abortion | |
| Animals, Vegetarianism, and Environmental Ethics | |
| The Place of Nonhumans in Environmental Issues | |
| Do Animals Have Rights? | |
| Why You Are Committed to the Immorality of Eating Meat | |
| Why I Am Only a Demi-Vegetarian | |
| Reply to Hare | |
| Respect for Life | |
| Reply to Rolston | |
| Liberty and Paternalism | |
| On Liberty | |
| Paternalism | |
| A Drug-Free America--or a Free America? | |
| U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency: Speaking Out Against Drug Legalization | |
| Marriage and Sexual Morality | |
| Why Shouldn't Tommy and Jim Have Sex? | |
| Homosexuality, Gay Marriage, and the Common Good | |
| Gay Marriage: The Case for Equal Treatment | |
| Adultery and Fidelity | |
| Alcohol and Rape | |
| Pornography, Oppression, and Freedom | |
| Voting and Democracy | |
| Considerations on Representative Government | |
| Is There a Duty to Vote? | |
| Editors, Harvard Law Review: The Case for Compulsory Voting | |
| Crime, Guns, and Rights | |
| The False Promise of Gun Control | |
| Handguns and Violent Crime | |
| Is There a Right to Own a Gun? | |
| Punishment and the Death Penalty | |
| Punishment and the Criminal Justice System | |
| The Ultimate Punishment: A Defense | |
| Justice, Civilization, and the Death Penalty | |
| U.S. Supreme Court: Atkins v. Virginia | |
| The Ethics of War and the Response to Terrorism | |
| Pacifism | |
| Jus ad Bellum and an Officer's Moral Obligations: Ignorance, the Constitution, and Iraq | |
| Civilians and Combatants | |
| Torture in Principle and in Practice | |
| Race, Discrimination, and Affirmative Action | |
| A More Perfect Union | |
| One Way to Understand and Defend Programs of Preferential Treatment | |
| The Case Against Affirmative Action | |
| U.S. Supreme Court: The University of Michigan Affirmative Action Cases | |
| Weight Discrimination | |
| Social Justice | |
| Editors, Harvard Law Review: Never Again Shall A People Starve in a World of Plenty | |
| Welfare and Social Justice | |
| Let the Poor Sell Their Kidneys | |
| Is Inheritance Justified? | |
| U.S. Supreme Court: Kelo v. City of New London | |
| Ethics in Business | |
| The Inconclusive Case Against Manipulative Advertising | |
| The Ethics of Sales | |
| Some Paradoxes of Whistleblowing | |
| Drug Testing in Employment | |
| For Further Reading | |
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